“Are you willing to let the leaves fall?” This year-old Insta post struck a nerve with me, as we once again turned seasons and as I turned towards the unknown, the future. My husband and I are both learning to let go, in different way. For him, he’s letting go of decades of work to […]
a letter to those single on valentine’s day
Dearest ladies, who also happen to be single on Valentine’s Day, Can I just say, right off the bat, that you are not merely “a single lady”? That phrase tries to mark out your identity, but it cannot do so. You are single, circumstantially. It’s a part of your life. It is not who you […]
Meditation on Wisdom
Continuing #fromthejournalfridays with my favorite prayer journal from Val Marie Paper with a meditation on wisdom. April 18 2020 AM Psalm 119.73 “breathe your wisdom over meso that I may understand you.” I started out the month wanting to ask for wisdom — and was praying for different, tangible circumstances that I need it in […]
Memories {link-up at velvet ashes: the grove}
What echoes have you heard in the silence? This is the question the Velvet Ashes’ Grove’s blog post begins with this week: pretty words dancing over a picture, to invite me into a still space, a sweet space with God again, like I had this weekend during a day-long retreat. But I find myself resisting; I […]
consider
2 months later, and it’s time for another word from the Lord. The people’s work seems to have progressed to the point where there are again priests in the Temple, studying, teaching, and keeping the law. So that’s where the Lord sends Haggai, to ask the priests about the law. He asks them about how […]
More.
“I have so much more for you than the work.” It came from the depths of my spirit last night, budding off of a conversation on identity and insecurity and how writing settles itself unkindly between those two things sometimes. But we instantly recognized it as from Him, me and my fellow writer-friend, Elizabeth. I […]